• May 7, 2007 | Legal Times

    Pillsbury Regroups

    No merger comes without its bumps and bruises. And that is certainly true of the mammoth 2005 union between California-based Pillsbury Winthrop and D.C.-based Shaw Pittman.The me

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  • January 30, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Unusual Management Setup Helps Spawn Growth at Dechert

    When Dechert Chairman Andrew J. Levander isn't busy representing former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine or handling issues related to the Madoff scandal as counsel for Ezra Merkin, he is focused

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  • January 15, 2008 | Legal Times

    High Court's 'Stoneridge' Ruling a Win for Business Defendants

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a solid win to third-party defendants in securities litigation -- including a class="linelink" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1190019768879" target

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  • October 13, 2003 | Legal Times

    Antitrust Goes Global

    Billions of dollars in potential awards. A new map for antitrust litigation. And what many say is a likely spot on the Supreme Court docket.Empagran v. F. Hoffmann-LaRoche

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  • November 27, 2006 | Legal Times

    Docket Watch: Upcoming Arguments at the Supreme Court

    Below are cases coming before the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and the lawyers who will argue them. "Docket Watch" appears at the beginning of each two-week argument cycle when t

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  • September 22, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Big names, high stakes in quartet of pre-emption cases

    Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal scholar, and Kenneth Starr, a conservative, may appear to be the Oscar and Felix of constitutional law, but they're also friends and, perhaps surprisingly, share es

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  • February 17, 2011 | National Law Journal

    Patents Remain a Priority

    When it comes to patent reform, the U.S. Supreme Court is a surer bet than Congress — at least in producing results. Consider this: Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee reported

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  • November 2, 2006 | The Recorder

    SUV Case Will Keep Haunting Automakers

    Automakers' pleas went unanswered Wednesday as the California Supreme Court a href="http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=0&doc_id=438216&doc_no=S146150"

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  • January 5, 2004 | The Recorder

    On the Move

    San FranciscoMichael Klingler, a former panelist with the San Jose office of JAMS, has joined Judicial ADR's specialist mediator panel serving the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  • September 21, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    A Waste of Money?

    Last January, most firms in The Am Law 100 thought that they had closed the books on their annual associate bonus decisions when Sullivan & Cromwell suddenly upped the ante. On a Friday afterno

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